Motion pictures classified by National Legion of Decency (1959)

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1953-54 1948-49 1945-46 1936-37 1936-37 1943-44 1937-38 1948-49 1941-42 1953-54 1940-41 1944-45 1937-38 1936-37 1954-55 Title and Distributor Rating Year of Review Make Haste to Live (Republic) A-II Make Mine Laughs (RKO) B Objection: Suggestive sequences. Make Mine Music (RKO) A-I Make Way for a Lady (RKO) A-I Make Way for Tomorrow (Paramount) A-I Make Your Own Bed (Warners) B Objection: Suggestive scenes and implications. Making the Headlines (Columbia) A-I Malaya (MGM) A-II Male Animal, The (Warner-First National) A-II Malta Story, The (United Artists) A-I Maltese Falcon, The (Warner-First National) A-II Mama Loves Papa (RKO) A-II Mama Runs Wild (Republic) A-I Mama Steps Out (MGM) A-II Mambo (Paramount) B Objection: The immoralities in the film, though not treated sympathetically, are of such a nature as to offend seriously through suggestiveness in dancing, costuming and situations. Low moral tone. Observation: This classification is applicable only to the English language version of this film. Mam'zelle Pigalle (Naughty Girl) (Fr.) (Films Around World) B Objection: Suggestive costuming and dancing. Man About the House, A (20th Century-Fox) ! B Objection: Suggestive sequences. Man About Town (Paramount) A-II Man About Town (French) (RKO-Pathe Cinema) A-II Man Afraid (U-I) A-I Man Alive (RKO) A-II Man Alone, A (Republic) A-II Man and His Sins (Screen Guild Prod.) A-II Man and His Wife, A (Un Homme et Sa Fern me) (French) (R. F. Films-French Film Exchange) B Man at Large (20th Century-Fox) A-II Man Bait (Lippert Prod.) A-II Man Behind the Gun (Warners) B Objection: Tends to condone illicit actions. Man Between, The (British) (United Artists) B Objection: Light treatment of marriage; suggestive situations; tends to condone immoral actions. Man Betrayed, A (Republic) A-I Man Betrayed, A (Republic) A-I Man Called Peter, A (20th Century-Fox) A-I Man Crazy (20th Century-Fox) B Objection: Low moral tone; tends to condone immoral actions. Man-Eater of Kumaon (Universal-International) A-II Manfish (UA) B Objection: Suggestive costuming, dancing and situations. Man from Arizona (Monogram) A-I Man from Bitter Ridge (Universal-International) A-I 142 1957-58 1948-49 1938-39 1947-48 1956-57 1945-46 1954-55 1948-49 1938-39 1940-41 1951-52 1952-53 1953-54 1936-37 1940-41 1954-55 1953-54 1947-48 1955-56 1939-40 1954-55